Using stories from science’s past to understand our world
Why are these stylish women posing with scientific instruments? Instrument makers in the 1960s used “lovely ladies” to sell their wares, an advertising ploy that’s still around today.
Join Distillations podcast host Alexis Pedrick as Science History Institute staff members share their favorite objects from our museum, archival, and library collections.
The various components of The Platonic Solids, one of the works on display in the Elemental Matters exhibit at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, represent the earliest visualization of the elements.
The ancestors of today’s CSI shows can be found between the covers of 20th-century detective stories.
How the often-maligned genre was used to train soldiers, explain the weather, and teach us about the modern world.
A crusading doctor’s stomach-churning efforts to beat back pellagra in the American South.
Institute fellow, science historian, and author Lisa Ruth Rand talks about all the debris floating around in outer space.
